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Dusty old bones, full of green dust.

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Are Overemployed ‘Ghost Engineers’ Making Six Figures to Do Nothing?
  • What a fucking snitch. 9.5% of engineers gotta go, but the CEO getting paid buckets and buckets of money isn't draining the company? Fire 9.5% of engineers that actually have knowledge and are skilled enough to demand a high price for their skills, or CEO fuck-all who comes in via zoom once a quarter and couldn't open a pdf if they're life depended on it. Hmm, what a hard choice 🤔

  • 'Remove uterus after women turn 30': Japan leader's bizarre population pitch sparks backlash
  • So he wanted forced hysterectomies, ban women over 30 from getting married, and restrict women's access to education so they could focus on babies. I love that all of this pressure is on women like it's just them being stubborn and not a reaction to the society they're trying to survive in. It also alludes that men are otherwise thriving, with no other issues than women's lack of interest causing their disinterest. Men aren't looking to have kids either. And I don't think forcing them to limit their own dating pool and knowing that they'll have to fully support a pregnant, uneducated wife and possibly multiple children is going to make anyone rock hard. Japanese people are already worked to death, and everything is sp competitive. Maybe deal with that before wtf that plan was???

  • Home is the most dangerous place for women, says global femicide report
  • The final line of the snippet states: "Nyaradzayi Gumbonzvanda, UN Women’s deputy executive director, said: “What the data is telling us is that it is the private and domestic sphere’s of women’s lives, where they should be safest, that so many of them are being exposed to deadly violence." It is not saying that, if women die, it's likely from DV, nor are they claiming to speak for homicide as a whole. They're saying that in cases of DV, women are more likely to be the victim. It's not spreading fear, it's just awareness. It sounds bad because it is bad. Sometimes that's just how it is.

  • Home is the most dangerous place for women, says global femicide report
  • The only way they could get this information is to compare it, that's why they're focusing on women, they happened to come out in top. If they said "smokers have an 80% higher chance of cancer", I'm taking it that they compared it to people who don't smoke, they don't need to tell me that because I can infer it. If I get a report that says "men are 50% more likely to die in combat" I wouldn't sit and go, "compared to what? Women? CHILDREN!? Why are they just focusing on men, like women don't die in combat! They're just showing scary numbers!" they're focusing on the group that came out in top and delving into that. I don't know how you would read the title of the article and be surprised that that is what they are focusing on.

  • Tell me your favorite line from Futurama?
  • “We know nothing about their history, their language, or what they look like, but we can assume this: they stand for everything that we don’t stand for. And also, they told me you guys look like dorks.”

  • Home is the most dangerous place for women, says global femicide report
  • Well, the way they initially presented has people coming in saying "Well, men get hurt too" like they're trying to say they don't. The way this first explained the numbers is saying, "Hey, they're 27% more likely to be harmed." All the person did was turn the data into a percentage.

  • Home is the most dangerous place for women, says global femicide report
  • How is it dishonest? It's looking at one specific kind of harm. It just happens men aren't the highest statistic for this kind of violence. That's literally all it's saying. "When it comes to relationship violence, women tend to be victims more often than men." If this was a report about suicide and they were ignoring men, I would get the issue.

    It's like an article talking about smokers being more likely to get lung cancer. It's not the only way to get it, but they're focusing on smokers. We wouldn't go, "Well they're ignoring all the miners." They just happen to not be the focus of that study.

  • Control
  • Go on a older person's phone. Whenever I have to do anything on my mom's phone, it gives me a headache. Everything is too bright and big and unorganized and has so man notifications! And her phone is much newer than mine and it's still hard for me.

  • Home is the most dangerous place for women, says global femicide report
  • This is specifically about intimate partner violence, not a study of every cause of death. They're focusing on women because the numbers are not higher for men. If they were the same, there would be little need to distinguish the two, but they noticed a tend. That's the whole point of this is to highlight that women face a higher risk of harm at home, at the hands of someone they know, than men. That's it. They're not saying men don't also get abused and murdered, nor is it saying the other ways men die aren't valid.

  • Home is the most dangerous place for women, says global femicide report
  • Posting this from another thread.


    It's a shame that this data is being presented this poorly, because this is a really important issue that deserves attention. None of the figures presented in the linked article have the proper context to understand them. Even the UN report itself does not present their findings well.

    So, for instance, 140 women per day is of course more than the ideal number of zero, but there are billions of people on this planet. To actually quantify the gender imbalance of this number, we need to compare it to the number of men who are victims in the same way. From the report:

    Globally, approximately 51,100 women and girls were killed by their intimate partners or other family members [...out of...] 85,000 women and girls killed intentionally during the year [...] In other words, an average of 140 women and girls worldwide lost their lives every day at the hands of their partner or a close relative.

    The report does not offer corresponding numbers for male (or non-binary) victims. It does, however, say that 11.8% of male victims and 60.2% of female victims are killed by partners or other family members. It also acknowledges that 80% of all homicide victims are men and 20% women, which is beside the point as this is about domestic violence, but it will allow us to do some math to arrive at numbers to compare against.

    • 85,000 * 80/20 = 340,000 men killed total
    • 340,000 * 11.8% = 40,120 men killed by partners or family
    • so we are comparing 40,120 men with 51,100 women
    • women are 27.4% more likely than men to be killed by partners or family.

    ...which should have been the headline. 27% more is massive! Domestic violence is a huge issue, and women are more likely to suffer from it!

    There is no need to obfuscate the numbers to be less honest. The honest numbers themselves are shocking enough, and scientifically literate readers won't dismiss your credibility along with your cause. I look forward to future UN reports communicating these horrifying statistics a bit more clearly.


    Edit: Wtf is wrong with ya'll? This article is only about one kind of violence that women are more suseptible too. That's it. No one is trying to say men aren't getting hurt, or even that women being harmed is the #1 cause of women's death. Someone has a post like, "Well, women are more likely to slip, so that's more dangerous, so there!" Like, okay??? Men are usually the victims of violent crimes and homicides, but when they looked at home based partner abuse, women come out on top. Like, damn.

    Here's some articles on men since apparently we can't have an article talking about something specific. I guess I should leave a comment on all of these saying "What about the girls!" :

    Men and boys are also victims of sex trafficking

    CDC page about male victims

    Men are less likely to fight back (South Africa specific)

    Men are less likely to report abuse.

  • Los Angeles becomes a sanctuary city for LGBTQ+ youth and immigrants as officials reject Project 2025
  • Like most things in the US, being treated like a human being is behind a paywall.

  • This is you tomorrow
  • I cry on company time. 💅🏾

  • Embarrassed Teslas Drivers Buying Huge Numbers of Anti-Elon Bumper Stickers
  • Yeah. My lack of income saves me from a lot of scams I'm too poor for 😂

  • Embarrassed Teslas Drivers Buying Huge Numbers of Anti-Elon Bumper Stickers
  • I bought this before I found out Elon was crazy. Man has always been insane, we just weren't listening yet.

  • Tinder in Korea is apparently pretty rough
  • Tinder was advertised by that idol involved with the Burning Sun incident. I wouldn't want to be on that app either.

    "Where should I fine my partner. I know! The app that was supported by the guy whose club was pretty much just a r*pe den. I'm sure I'll find the man of my dreams."

  • GOP senator introduces bill to legally erase transgender people
  • They're not even replacing anything, they're just adding to it. Why do ya'll even care. Life is already so fucking miserable, even worse when you feel like you're not even in the right body. Fucking help people. Why is it that seemingly every politician just hates people? Why go out of your wait to be a representative just to make people miserable.

  • R9k discusses pigs
  • No brother! I have seen this before. I have observed many things. From the roaring beasts that the tall skinny figures crawl inside of to travel far beyond the horizon, to how the figure weeped when the other had fallen into a deep sleep. And from my experiences I have learned that they will give extra oats to one of us before taking them into... the shed of no return.

  • What are some video game quotes that is stuck in your head?
  • I often think about the god who blessed us with this cryptic puzzle...and wonder if we'll ever get the chance to kill him.

  • They will not live in fear. 🫡

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    I always feel like...

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    Whatcha' playing?

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    Multi-tasking

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    Could Linux save my laptop?

    This past weekend, my laptop decided it's had enough and has given me the blue screen of death. I've put it in recovery mode, tried to reinstall windows, the works, and it refuses. I have no idea why. I was logged on, looking something up, and it went kaput. I wasn't downloading anything, the computer was in it's sleeve prior, not too wet, cold, hot, etc. Battery is fine, the laptop it's self is maybe two years old.

    My understanding is that Linux is a kind of system that you download the components to a USB or what not and then install it on your machine. Is that something I could do in this case? Or do I need to take it somewhere?

    Edit: it seems I may have to check if it's a hardware problem. The error code is Bad_system_config_info, but it changed to something else at one point but I didn't write that one down. :(

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    K.O.

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    Afternoon Visitor

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    As long as she's comfortable...

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    Would it be weird if I took something my neighbor put out for trash?

    They put out this shelf and I want it, but I don't want to seem strange? It would make a nice plant shelf, but it's not something I can scurry away with, so people would see me while I carried it. Is that a bad thing to do?

    EDIT: Never mind. Someone beat me to it. 😭

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    Very Handsome

    I took this picture through my mosquito netting and I thought it turned out neat.

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    Breaking news! My cat is officially off her diet!

    When I adopted her she was 21 pounds and I had to use a small dog carrier. She's now at a healthy 13 (she's long).

    Another photo of her from her chonk days:

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    Her first time seeing snow.

    I adopted her when I was in the south west and she came with me to the east coat. That blur in the corner is my fat finger trying to take a picture.

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    Good PS5 controller?

    I know it's a long shot, but are there any controllers that people could recommend? Both of my controllers went. One has a severe drift and the other one has unresponsive buttons (and I had gotten that one to deal with the drift of the first).

    I was wondering if anyone knew of any sturdier brands?

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    Mother, I hunger.

    She'll stand there and scream until I get her food. 🙃

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    This bird looks like a Don Bluth villain.

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    I don't have a good title. Please look at this bird.

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    "Fat" Finch disease.

    I recently noticed a Finch that seems to be suffering from this, which really broke my heart. I looked it up and have taken down and washed the feeders. I'm posting to ask if chikadees can get this as well. I've looked all over but they mostly mention doves and so forth. Some of the chikadees still visit to see if the feeder is back, and I can't tell if one is just fat or if she's sick. I know I wouldn't be able to do anything, but I'd like to know if I should be looking at them as carriers as well.

    spoiler

    Please remember this little Finch. It breaks my heart that I can't help her and I'm surprisingly devesated about this random bird.

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    Noisy Neighbor

    First Attempt:

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    How do you drive in Cyberpunk???

    I feel like I'm driving in an ice level and the game keeps telling my car is gonna explode. 😭

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    Small and Loud.

    So cute, but so very loud.

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